Project

Sixth Operational Phase of the GEF SGP in Kazakhstan

Lead country

Kazakhstan

Participating countries

Kazakhstan

Project status

Under implementation

Implementing period

From August 18, 2017 to October 17, 2021

SDGs addressed by this project

SDG targets

  1. 2.4 Ensure sustainable food production, maintain key ecosystems
  2. 4.7 Ensure education, skills to promote sustainable development
  3. 15.6 Promote fair, equitable benefits sharing

Project ID: 5469

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Technical team

  • Climate Strategies and Policy Programme

Cross-cutting programme(s)

  • Ecosystems and Biodiversity Programme
  • Climate Change Adaptation Programme

Technical area(s)

  • Ecosystem-based adaptation
  • Fostering Food Security and resilient agricultural systems

Landscape(s)

  • Grasslands
  • Deserts

Sub-landscape(s)

  • Steppes
  • Drylands
  • Grazing lands
  • Semi-arid (cold winter) deserts

Transformed sector(s)

  • Agriculture
  • Fisheries
  • Livestock

UNDP role(s)

  • Capacity development / Technical assistance
  • Direct support / Service Delivery
  • Innovative approaches

Strategy

  • Governance
  • Enabling
  • Mitigation adaptation

Sub-strategy

  • Partnerships
  • Inter-sectoral coordination
  • Adaptive governance
  • Mainstream
  • Advocacy (towards policy makers)
  • Community engagement
  • Impact assessment
  • Ecosystem mitigation and adaptation
  • Erosion prevention

Social inclusion

  • Youth/Children
  • Disabled
  • Elderly

Gender equality

  • Women's access to and control over resources
  • Women decision making
  • Women farmers

Gender result effectiveness scale

  • Gender responsive

Pathway(s)

  • Systems pathway

Risk reduction target(s)

  • Hazard control/mitigation

SDG target(s)

  • 2.4 Ensure sustainable food production, maintain key ecosystems
  • 4.7 Ensure education, skills to promote sustainable development
  • 15.6 Promote fair, equitable benefits sharing

Conventions and protocols

  • United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
  • Other Global Conventions

Private sector(s)

  • Small and medium-sized enterprises
  • Individuals/Entrepreneurs

Hot topic

  • Green recovery
  • Poverty reduction
  • Public-private partnership

About this project

Description

Community-level organizations in Kazakhstan often lack essential adaptive management capabilities such as technical know-how, planning skills, experimentation capacities and organizational abilities, and may resort to unsustainable land and biodiversity resource-use practices that can threaten desert and steppe ecosystems. This phase of the SGP will focus on desert and steppe landscapes by supporting community organizations to develop and implement adaptive management projects that build social, economic, and ecological resilience based on, and reinforced, by global environmental and local sustainable development benefits. Community organizations' activities that promote climate change adaptation and mitigation, sustainable land management, including agro-ecosystem management and integrated water resources management, and biodiversity conservation, will be supported and synergized to achieve results at the landscape level.

Objectives

To build the socio-ecological resilience of steppe and desert landscapes of Kazakhstan by securing global environmental benefits from community-based management of biodiversity, ecosystem function, and land, water, and biomass resources.

USD $2,739,726

Grant amount

USD $4,702,400

Leveraged amount (co-financing)

1

Source(s) of fund

Sources of fund

 

  • Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($2,739,726)

Implementing partner(s)

  • UN Office for Project Services

Project metrics

Outcome 1:

Resilient rural and peri-urban landscapes of steppe and desert ecosystems for sustainable development and global environmental protection

Outputs:

Community Organizations in multi-stakeholder partnerships formulate and implement adaptive management plans to strengthen socio-ecological resilience of steppe and desert landscapes based on conservation, of biodiversity, sustainable management of land and water resources and adaptation to and mitigation of climate change Multi-stakeholder landscape management groups, local policy-makers and sub-national advisors organized in landscape policy platforms discuential policy innovations based on analysis of project experience and lessons learnedCommunity organizations in target eco-systems build their adaptive management and organizational capacities by designing and implementing community and/or landscape level projects to sustain and revitalize biodiversity and ecosystem function; improve productivity and sustainability of production systems; develop viable livelihood alternatives; and strengthen formal and non-formal landscape governance institutions and mechanismsSuccessful technologies, practices and systems from community-based initiatives are replicated and promoted for up-scaling by multi-stakeholder partnerships using knowledge and lessons learned from identifying, testing and adapting community innovations for landscape and resource management

 Indicators:

Number of community organizations and associations and direct beneficiaries disaggregated by gender, whose resilience is strengthened by experimenting, innovating and learning through landscape planning and management processes in the landscape
Area under resilient landscape management whose biodiversity, agro-ecosystems, and sustainable livelihoods are protected
Increased use of renewable energy or energy efficiency technologies at community level
Number of baseline participatory landscape assessments for targeted steppe and desert landscapes
Number of multi-stakeholder governance policy platforms which include participatory landscape / planning and adaptive management in the landscape
Number of strategies to achieve greater social and ecological resilience
Number of knowledge products (case studies, pamphlets, advocacy campaigns)
Percentage of beneficiaries disaggregated by gender with increased incomes as a result of sustainable and/or alternative practices
Increased area of agricultural land under sustainable agro-ecological practices and systems that increase productivity and decrease land degradation
Increased area under climate-adaptive practices
Increased area under management for biodiversity conservation and sustainable use
Number and typology of community-based projects, implemented by CBOs and NGOs in partnership with others in the targeted landscapes, as outputs to achieve landscape level outcomes
Number of energy efficient and renewable technologies piloted successfully
Number of new technologies, practices or systems successfully replicated and up-scaled beyond the landscapes
Outcome 2:

Knowledge Generation and Management, Information-sharing and Dissemination of Lessons Learned.

Outputs:

Knowledge products and lessons learned are systematized, organized and disseminated for policy recommendations
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